Australia’s first driverless metro train has passed its first full test with flying colours, having recently travelled along the entire 36 kilometres of Sydney’s $8.3 billion Metro Northwest rail line.

As part of the UNSW Women in Engineering Awards, the university has awarded the Ada Lovelace Medal for Outstanding Woman Engineer to EA Honorary Fellow, Professor Judy Raper, a chemical engineer with expertise in air and water pollution control.

Engineers at ANU have invented a semiconductor with organic and inorganic materials that converts electricity into light, is thin and flexible enough to make mobiles bendable, and opens the door to a new generation of devices that will be biodegradable or easily recycled.